The Criminal Code Act 1899 - Ozcase Queensland Historical Legal ...

CRIMINAL CODE ss. 489,490 161
(m) A certificate of marriage given under the provisions of the
laws relating to the solemnisation of marriage;
(n) A copy of the registry of a marriage;
(0) A stamp issued or made under the laws relating to the
Post Office;
(p) A power of attorney or letter of attorney;
(9) The signature of a witness to a power of attorney or letter
of attorney;
(r) A contract, or a writing which with other writings constitutes
a contract or is evidence of a contract;
(s) An authority or request for the payment of money or for
the delivery of property;
(t) An acquittance or discharge, or a voucher of having received
any property, or any document which is evidence of the
receipt of any property;
(U) Any mark which under the authority of any Statute is
impressed upon or otherwise attached to or connected with
any article for the purpose of denoting the quality of the
article or the fact that it has been examined or approved by
or under the authority of some public body or public officer;
(VI A certificate given under the provisions of the laws relating
to quarantine;
the offender is liable to ~priso~ent with hard labour for seven years,
with or without solitary confinement.
s. If the thing forged purports to be, or is intended by
the offender to be understood to be or to be used as, a message to be
sent by telegraph, or a message received by telegraph, the offender is
liable to the same punishment as if he had forged a document to the
same eRect as the message.
en& and ~~~~~~~~~~ Se S. Any person who
knowingly and fraudulently utters a false document or writing, or a
counterfeit seal, is guilty of an offence of the same kind and is liable
to the same punishment as if he had forged the thing in question.
It is immaterial whether the false docu~ent or writing, or counterfeit
seal, was made in Queensland or elsewhere.
The term “fraudulently” means an intention that the thing in
question shall be used or acted upon as genuine, whether in Queensland
or elsewhere, to the prejudice of some person, whether a particular person
or not, or that some person, whether a particular person or not, shall,
in the belief that the thing in question is genuine, be induced to do or
refrain from doing some act, whether in Queensland or elsewhere.
~~~~~~~~~ or Ex ks. Any person who
knowingly utters as and for a subsisting and effectual document any
document which has by amy lawful authority been ordered to be revoked,
cancelled, or suspended, or the operation of which has ceased by
effluxion of time, or by death, or by the happening of any other event,
is guilty of an offence of the same kind and is liable to the same punishment
as if he had forged the document.